Films like Ex-Machina and WALL-E interrogate our humanity’s ethics and our propensity for destruction, while Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey provide poetic meditations on grief, ambition and evolution. Those things are cool, don’t get us wrong, but some of the best sci-fi also acts as an opportunity to teach us about foibles, flaws, heart and resilience of humanity.
Science-fiction movies aren’t just an opportunity to show off the vibrating hum and power of laser swords, the mammoth size of spaceships or incredible alien civilisations.
